The Coronation of Cosimo I de' Medici
c. 1570
Etcher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 36.3 × 50 cm (14 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.15
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 371, state i/ii
Associated Artworks
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Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet
1549
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 98a.
1967
Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: VIII.104.53
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered CR: "Essendo venuto in Roma il Ser.mo Gran Duca di Toscana per ringratiare S. S.ta' del Titolo concessagli et per conoronarsi a Di xviii di Febraro 1570 fece l'intrata publica solennemente accompagnato da tutta la Corte in mezzo a doi Car.li et fu ricevuto da S. S.ta' in Concistorio publico nella Sala Regia come nel presnte disegno si vede"
Wikidata ID
Q77259583